弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

前言

我們有幸將“劍橋文學(xué)名家研習(xí)系列”（美國卷）叢書推薦給我國有關(guān)專業(yè)的本科生、研究生和外國文學(xué)愛好者。這一套著名大學(xué)出版社的英文原版文學(xué)叢書，以普及、介紹和導(dǎo)讀為宗旨，集權(quán)威性和可讀性于一體，原汁原味但又淺近易懂，特色鮮明，十分難得。叢書是開放式的，我們首先推出第一系列共七冊，包括詩人惠特曼、狄金森、龐德，作家霍桑、麥爾維爾、馬克·吐溫和菲茨杰拉德。這些美國作家和詩人都是我國知識界和文化青年熟知的名字——至少是應(yīng)該知道的名字。他們都是美國主流文學(xué)的臺柱，他們的作品影響巨大，能夠反映或折射當(dāng)時(shí)的歷史和社會狀況，并仍然能給今天的我們帶來啟示。他們是世界文化遺產(chǎn)的一部分，屬于美國，也屬于全世界。

內(nèi)容概要

本書為“劍橋文學(xué)名家研習(xí)系列”之一，由近年來在美國從事菲茨杰拉德研究十分活躍的柯克·科納特撰寫，分為四個(gè)部分，包括菲茨杰拉德的生平，作品的文化背景，作品的創(chuàng)作過程、重要主題、主要人物、情節(jié)和意象、作品的風(fēng)格和特色等，以及評論界對菲茨杰拉德的研究流變這幾個(gè)方面，資料翔實(shí)，觀點(diǎn)新穎。在介紹菲茨杰拉德作品的文化背景時(shí)，作者沒有從常規(guī)的20世紀(jì)20、30年代的歷史發(fā)展入手，而是突出當(dāng)時(shí)社會文化的潮流，觀點(diǎn)具有前瞻性，很見功力。對菲茨杰拉德作品主題和人物的解讀，也獨(dú)辟蹊徑，條縷分明，自成一體。這樣一部風(fēng)格獨(dú)特的研究導(dǎo)讀，無論是對關(guān)注菲茨杰拉德的研究學(xué)者，還是對一般的文學(xué)愛好者都會有所裨益。讀者可以由此更為深入地理解菲茨杰拉德其人其作，從而促進(jìn)我國菲茨杰拉德研究的進(jìn)一步發(fā)展?！　「ァに箍铺亍し拼慕芾?，作為20世紀(jì)最出色的文學(xué)家之一，菲茨杰拉德傳奇的生平和他的藝術(shù)一樣令人傾倒。本書分析了菲茨杰拉德全部的小說作品，包括最受歡迎的《了不起的蓋茨比》和《夜色溫柔》，深入探討了菲茨杰拉德創(chuàng)作中的典型主題、主要情節(jié)、獨(dú)特風(fēng)格，以及令人難忘的小說人物，讓讀者真切體味菲茨杰拉德作品的魅力。

作者簡介

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書籍目錄

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 Life　Childhood and literary apprenticeship(1896-1917)　Zelda and early success (1918-1924)　Artistic maturity and personal decline(1925-1934)　The crack-up and the comeback (1935-1940)Chapter 2 Cultural context　My generation: youth culture and the politics of aging　The theater of being: personality and performative identity　The marketplace of self-making: personal style and consumerism　Flaunting recreations: conspicuous leisure and the culture of indulgenceChapter 3 Works　Composition process　Major themes　Major characters　Major plots and motifs　Mode and genre　Style and point of viewChapter 4 Critical reception　Contemporary reviewers　The Fitzgerald revival　Modern Fitzgerald studiesNotesGuide to further readingIndex

章節(jié)摘錄

Childhood and literary apprenticeship (1896-1917)As with many writers, the first circumstance that Fitzgerald had to overcome washis immediate family. As the New Yorkerpolitely put it in 1926, "His success was agreat surprise to the home circle... [for] the Fitzgeralds were not what is knownas literary people.''4 Although Fitzgerald claimed that his father co-authoredan unpublished novel, Edward Fitzgerald (1853-1931) served him mainly asa symbol of failure. When his only son was born on September 24, 1896, thegenteel furniture manufacturer presided over an unprofitable wicker works inSt Paul, Minnesota. The firm's closing two years later, coupled with Edward'ssubsequent undistinguished career as a wholesale grocery salesman, ledFitzgerald to dismiss his father alternately as a "moron" and, more generously,as representative of that "good heart that came from another America" -that is, the Victorian age that modernity had rendered obsolete.5 The defin-ing event of Fitzgerald's childhood was Edward's 1908 firing from Procter andGamble, for whom the family had relocated to Buffalo and Syracuse, New York,during his infancy. Memories of that humiliation would resurface whenever theson doubted his own merits. "He had lost his essential drive, his immaculate-ness of purpose," Fitzgerald reflected. "He was a failure the rest of his days" (InHis Own Time 297). Defeatism was not merely a personal flaw; it was indicativeof his father's "tired old stock," which had "very little left of vitality and mentalenergy" (Apprentice Fiction 178). Edward's matrilineal lineage could be tracedto a founding pair of Maryland families, the Scotts and the Keys, which includedFitzgerald's namesake, Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Ban-ner." Yet the Civil War superannuated the legacy of Southern nobility in whichEdward was reared, leading Fitzgerald to ascribe his mediocrity to historicalupheaval. "I wonder how deep the Civil War was in [him]," he wrote in 1940,recalling tales of Edward's childhood days ferrying Confederate spies acrossthe Potomac. "What a sense of honor and duty... How lost [his generation]seemed in the changing world.., struggling to keep their children in the hautebourgeoisie when their like were sinking into obscur[ity] .

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